calendar. "The feasts," it is pointed out, "were denoted by symbols resembling hieroglyphics, in a manner which will be best understood by examples. Thus a peculiarly-shaped emblem referred to Circumcisio Domini on 1st January.…St. John the Baptist, having been beheaded with a sword, his day (June 24th) was graced with that implement. St. Lawrence had his gridiron on the 10th of August." In looking at the above plate, it must be kept in mind that it represents the four sides of a square stick, which was about eight inches long. The stick was usually hung up in some convenient corner of the mediæval dwelling-house. Mr. William Andrews, F.R.H.S., of Hull, in his "Old Church Lore," devotes a chapter to the Clog Calendar, under the title of "Symbols of the Saints." Our illustration is from his volume.
